Word: irone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boss" Brandle is the Jersey City organizer for the International Association of Bridge, Structural & Ornamental Iron Workers. He is also president of the New Jersey Building Trades Council. He organized a truck owners' association, operates a bonding company. His summer home is at Deal. N. J. He owns two homes in Jersey City where he also runs the Labor National Bank. For his good friend Mayor Frank Hague of Jersey City in 1930 he paid a $60,000 fine for evading the Federal income tax. Two years later he paid a similar fine of $96,000 for himself...
Typically descriptive of "Boss" Brandie's methods was a telegram from the Newark Iron Workers Union to the A. F. of L. executive council...
...forced to sit idly by and see our work in our own territory done by men from Brandle's local, while our men from Newark are not allowed to work in Brandle's territory without being threatened or actually attacked. More than 100 men from Brandle's local with iron bars, baseball bats, etc. attacked six Newark men on the Medical Center job in Jersey City. This same thing happened on a job in Hackensack and a repetition happened again in Bayonne. We have tried every way possible to get adequate support from our general officers and have failed, even...
...When he was 18 Thomas Bat'a, the humble cobbler's son, was managing his own shoe factory with 50 working partners. He drank milk, urged them to drink milk, ruled them for what he conceived to be their own good (and his) with a will of iron. Today Zlin boasts the largest per capita per day consumption of milk on earth...
...vaulted the wall, landed on hands & knees in the gnus' enclosure. With a snort of rage, Big Nick charged his prostrate keeper, trampled him, gored him with short, sharp horns. One John Downey, visitor at the zoo, heard Keeper Mott's screams, picked up rocks and an iron bar, fought the blue gnu through the bars until the man could be dragged...